DB2 Job Trends in the North West

IBM DB2
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring DB2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 204 181
Rank change year-on-year +21 -23 +111
Permanent jobs citing DB2 3 3 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.048% 0.057% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.61% 0.39% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £48,750 £68,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £52,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -30.00% +41.51%
75th Percentile - £56,250 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £95,000 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +49.02% +2.00% -10.71%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North West

DB2 falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 495 778 750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.00% 14.90% 19.24%
Number of salaries quoted 377 393 617
10th Percentile £34,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile £68,666 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,985 £82,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DB2 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

DB2 job vacancy trend in the North West

DB2
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing DB2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing DB2

DB2
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester - 3 £90,000 - 6
DB2
England

DB2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) dbt
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Cleansing
1 2 (66.67%) Data Mapping
1 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Model Validation
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Flow Diagram
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) Fund Accounting
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Advent
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft